Media framing of the Macedonia name change issue: The use of fear-inducing language strategies

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 265-284
Author(s):  
Zorica Trajkova
Keyword(s):  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Media Framing ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Name Change ◽  
The Social ◽  
Online Newspaper ◽  
Neighbouring Country ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Language Strategies

Abstract It is considered a huge socio-political step for a country to change its name, especially under pressure imposed by another country. In January 2019, Macedonia officially became the Republic of North Macedonia after a three-decade long dispute with its neighbouring country Greece. Macedonian citizens have long suffered the consequences of this dispute and have often expressed their dissatisfaction on the social media. However, the media played a crucial role in shaping their opinions regarding this situation. This paper attempts to present how pro- and anti-government oriented media sources framed the issue and influenced the citizens’ perceptions of it. More precisely, it conducts a critical discourse analysis of 30 online newspaper articles, written during three specific periods on a timeline from January 2018 to February 2019, before, during and after the name change. The analysis sets out to identify lexical, pragmatic and discursive devices acting as potential fear triggers through which threat frames are being constructed. The results showed that both pro- and anti- government media sources appeal mostly to people’s emotions by generating fear related to a hypothetical future – in the case of the former it instigated fear of what might happen with the future of the country provided the name was not changed, while in the case of the latter, if the name was changed.

scholarly journals Metaphor, morality and legitimacy: A critical discourse analysis of the media framing of the payday loan industry

Organization ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 26 (6) ◽  
pp. 802-829 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kate Budd ◽  
Darren Kelsey ◽  
Frank Mueller ◽  
Andrea Whittle
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Moral Panic ◽  
Media Framing ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Moral Problem ◽  
Real Wages ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Government ◽  
British Press

This study examines the metaphors used in the British press to characterize the payday loan industry in order to develop our understanding of organizational delegitimation. Drawing on critical discourse analysis and theories of moral panic, we show how the metaphors used in the press framed the industry as a ‘moral problem’. The study identified four root metaphors that were used to undertake moral problematization: predators and parasites, orientation, warfare and pathology. We show how these metaphors played a key role in the construction of a moral panic through two framing functions: first by constructing images of the damage and danger caused by the firms and second by attributing agency in such a way that moral responsibility was assigned to the organizations. We also extend the discussion of our findings to explore the ideological dimensions of the moral panic. We develop a critical analysis that points to the potential scapegoating role of the discourse, which served as a convenient moral crusade for the government and other neo-liberal supporters to pursue, while detracting attention away from the underlying socio-economic context, including austerity policies, the decline in real wages and the deregulation of the finance sector. From this critical perspective, payday loan companies can be seen as a ‘folk devil’ through which society’s fears about finance capitalism are articulated, creating disproportionate exaggeration and alarm, while the system as a whole can remain intact.

scholarly journals Indonesian Media Framing of Reportage on the Crimean Peninsula Crisis

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 267-278
Author(s):  
Mochamad Aviandy ◽  
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Shuri Mariasih Gietty Tambunan ◽  
Silva Tenrisara Pertiwi Isma ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Frame Analysis ◽  
Media Framing ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Crimean Peninsula ◽  
Mainstream Media ◽  
The Media ◽  
International Event ◽  
The Crimean Peninsula

This research investigates how one of the mainstream media in Indonesia frames Russia in its reportage. One of the selected cases is the 2014 Crimean Peninsula crisis. The Crimean Peninsula Crisis was a major international event that reported comprehensively by Kompas. This research will reveal Kompas’ bias in its reportage on Crimea and the factors that underlie the bias. In investigating the issue, this research uses Norman Fairclough’s critical discourse analysis. It follows Fairclough method of critical discourse analysis by using text as a discourse. It is found that as one of the mainstream media in Indonesia, Kompas reportage is not neutral as it depicts Russia through a negative frame. Analysis on semiotic factors, intertextuality, and how the media bias could be handled are the focuses of this research.

scholarly journals Struggles over legitimacy in the Eurozone crisis: Discursive legitimation strategies and their ideological underpinnings

2014 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 500-518 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eero Vaara
Keyword(s):  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Alternative Future ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Common ◽  
Legitimacy Crisis ◽  
Financial Capitalism ◽  
The Empirical Analysis

This article focuses on the discursive underpinnings of the legitimacy crisis that the Eurozone as a transnational institution is facing. By adopting a critical discourse analysis (CDA) perspective, the empirical analysis focuses on the media discussion in Finland. The analysis shows how discourses of financial capitalism, humanism, nationalism and Europeanism played a central role in legitimation, delegitimation and relegitimation. Furthermore, the analysis elaborates on the legitimation strategies that were often used in the media texts: position-based authorizations involving institutionalized authorities and ‘voices of the common man’, knowledge-based authorizations focusing on economic expertise, rationalizations concentrating on economic arguments, moral evaluations based on unfairness used especially for delegitimation, mythopoiesis involving alternative future scenarios and cosmology used to construct inevitability. By so doing, this study adds to our understanding of the discursive and ideological underpinnings of the social, political and financial crisis in Greece and other European countries and contributes to research on discursive legitimation more generally.

scholarly journals Positive Reaction Toward Trade and Economic Partnership Between Indonesia and Australia Governments in The Jakarta Post

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 10
Author(s):  
Rosaria Mita Amalia ◽  
Taufik Ampera ◽  
Yuyu Yohana Risagarniwa
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Positive Reaction ◽  
Dominant Strategy ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Economic Partnership

This study explores the representation of social actors, both in the Indonesian and Australian governments on the Trade and Economic Partnership through Critical Discourse Analysis approach. The issue focuses on both governments partnership published in the Jakarta Post during 2014-2018. Using Critical Discourse Analysis as an approach, this article analyses the media exclusion and inclusion strategies of social actors. By applying descriptive qualitative methods, result shows that the dominant strategy is the inclusion strategy. The use of inclusion strategy indicates specifications, individualization and categorization of positive reaction and support of The Jakarta Post towards the Indonesian government on trade and economic partnership between Indonesia and Australia. However, the use of exclusion strategy is aim to hide the social actors in the discourse and to divert reader's attention to the object rather than the subject discourse.

scholarly journals (De)Legitimizing Surveillance Revelations through the Media Lenses

MaRBLe ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Czabanowska
Keyword(s):  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Media Framing ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Daily Mail ◽  
News Values ◽  
The Core ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Guardian ◽  
Comparative Manner

This research interprets and explains how and why the British newspapers such as The Guardian, the Daily Mail, and The Independent, have (de)legitimized the NSA Snowden revelations of 2013. The study uses critical discourse analysis to understand what media framing techniques are used by the media sources and how can they be explained by looking at the core ideologies and news values of the newspapers. The corpus used for the analysis includes ninety articles in total, consisting of thirty per newspaper. The frames are identified using Entman’s (1993; 2005) definitions of media framing. They are then explained using the (de)legitimisation techniques by Van Leuuwen and Wodak (1999) in a comparative manner. The analysis reveals that The Guardian focuses on deligitimising surveillance and justifying their decision to cooperate with Edward Snowden on the basis of legality, public interest, morality, and power abuse. The Daily Mail legitimises surveillance using arguments concerning security, counterterrorism, and citizen protection while concentrating on Snowden’s personal life, love, lifestyle and character. The Independent follows an informative narrative to raise awareness about the scandal through a politically autonomous stance. It allows the readership to shape their opinion on the subject by presenting them with contra and pro surveillance arguments.  

scholarly journals (De)Legitimizing Surveillance Revelations through the Media Lenses

MaRBLe ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Czabanowska
Keyword(s):  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Media Framing ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Daily Mail ◽  
News Values ◽  
The Core ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Guardian ◽  
Comparative Manner

This research interprets and explains how and why the British newspapers such as The Guardian, the Daily Mail, and The Independent, have (de)legitimized the NSA Snowden revelations of 2013. The study uses critical discourse analysis to understand what media framing techniques are used by the media sources and how can they be explained by looking at the core ideologies and news values of the newspapers. The corpus used for the analysis includes ninety articles in total, consisting of thirty per newspaper. The frames are identified using Entman’s (1993; 2005) definitions of media framing. They are then explained using the (de)legitimisation techniques by Van Leuuwen and Wodak (1999) in a comparative manner. The analysis reveals that The Guardian focuses on deligitimising surveillance and justifying their decision to cooperate with Edward Snowden on the basis of legality, public interest, morality, and power abuse. The Daily Mail legitimises surveillance using arguments concerning security, counterterrorism, and citizen protection while concentrating on Snowden’s personal life, love, lifestyle and character. The Independent follows an informative narrative to raise awareness about the scandal through a politically autonomous stance. It allows the readership to shape their opinion on the subject by presenting them with contra and pro surveillance arguments.  

scholarly journals Langue de bois, or, discourse in defense of an offshore financial center

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Samuel Weeks
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Language Use ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Rationality ◽  
The Social ◽  
Financial Center ◽  
Language Strategies

Abstract This article brings together trends in Critical Discourse Analysis dating from the 1980s – which examine how language use and ideologies (re)produce social inequality – with current research in the social sciences on neoliberalism and other emerging politico-economic formations. The article addresses such a problematic with an empirical case: the language strategies, dubbed langue de bois, that people affiliated with Luxembourg’s offshore financial center employ to justify their practices. The contribution herein surveys the political rationality of the country’s financial center by analyzing the langue de bois that its representatives and boosters use. These language strategies, furthermore, enable Luxembourg’s finance elites to socialize the domestic public’s understanding of their activities.

scholarly journals MEMBEDAH REALITAS KOMUNIKASI LINTAS AGAMA DI MEDIA MASSA (Critical Discourse Analisys terhadap Kompas tahun 2015)

2016 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 174-198
Author(s):  
Umi Halwati
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Public Support ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Social Aspect ◽  
The Social ◽  
Plural Society ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Mass Media ◽  
Race And Religion

Abstract: The consequence of a plural society is social conflict. An attitude that can stimulate conflict is exclusivism, primordial ethnicity, race and religion. The existence of an interfaith communication cannot be separated from the mass media. The mass media is a tool or an effective mediator in the publication of ideology in the stage win public support. Therefore, it is necessary to study scientifically how the media constructs a discourse of reality. This study is qualitative research using critical discourse analysis approach. The results of this study describe how the Kompas newspaper construct a discourse, both in terms of thematic, schematic, semantic, syntactic, rhetorical, and in terms of the social aspect of the analysis. Keyword: inter-religious communication, media.

scholarly journals The Critical Discourse Analysis on Pornography News of “V Garut” at TribunJabar.id Online Media

2020 ◽  
Vol 36 (4) ◽  
pp. 16-33
Author(s):  
Zikri Fachrul Nurhadi ◽  
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Neneng Cucu Marlina ◽  
Mochamad Firdaus ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Social Cognition ◽  
Social Context ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Online Media ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Social ◽  
Qualitative Descriptive ◽  
The Media

The emergence of pornography cases that had gone viral on social media with the tagline "V Garut" shocked the public because the act was committed by a woman and several men. The female suspect claimed that this act was done because of coercion and pressure that the male suspect had put on her. The research aims to explain the level of text, social cognition and social context of the pornography news of "V Garut" on the online media of TribunJabar.id. The research used a qualitative descriptive method with the theoretical approach of critical discourse analysis by Teun A. Van Dijk. Data collection techniques used observation, interviews, and documentation. The research object was related to the news of "V Garut" on the online media TribunJabar.id with two informants. The results of research at the text level in the elements of macrostructures, superstructures and microstructures explain the existence of a discourse indicating an unfavourable situation such as violence and marginalization on the role of "V Garut". Journalists’ social cognition tends to judge this case as “unique” phenomenon, not focusing on a social issue that must be addressed in society. Based on the analysis of the social context of this news, it can be seen that there is a powerful practice of the media and the authority’s access in reporting the “V Garut” case. Keywords: Critical discourse analysis, pornography, social cognition, social context, text.

Reproducing Orientalism With Cinema

2021 ◽  
pp. 953-973
Author(s):  
Deniz Yüceer Berker
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Effective Mass ◽  
World View ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Political Pressure ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Relationship

The place and importance of mass media as an ideological device is accepted without any discussion today. The sovereign states, trying to impose their ideology and world view to “others,” impose the dominant ideology by using the media as well as economic and political pressure. Cinema is like a mirror that reveals the socio-cultural and economic structures in societies and reflects all changes and conflicts. Therefore, the relationship between cinema and social structure is quite strong. At this point, the relationship between cinema and orientalism, which is the subject of the study, becomes important. Orientalism is constantly being reproduced through cinema, which is one of the most effective mass media. In this context, the movie Aladdin produced in 2019 will be analyzed in order to analyze how the orientalist perspective is reproduced with cinema and how the eastern image is “otherized.” In the study, critical discourse analysis method was preferred for the purpose of analyzing the social and political backgrounds of the ideologies in the film.

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